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The Story of Stuff from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Filmmaker Annie Leonard offers advice on becoming a network-centric organization At the TechSoup Global Contributors Summit in San Jose on March 15, Annie Leonard, an independent filmmaker in Berkeley, Calif., gave one of the standout talks, discussing how The Story of Stuff — the film […]
Activism
How we’ll fund innovation & sustainability
Snapshot of sustainabilitiy in the 50 largest U.S. cities (photo by whiterice). Guest post by Joe Brewer Cognitive Policy Works It’s time to solve a fundamental problem that plagues progressives everywhere – the lack of seed money to get innovative projects off the ground and the absence of workable funding models to scale up the […]
Want to take action on a cause? The road ahead just got easier
Peter Deitz, the whirlwind behind Social Actions. (Photo by JD Lasica) Social Actions moves the open source ball forward for the cause community Guest post by Amy Sample Ward amysampleward.org I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. […]
VolunteerSpot: Tips to spur offline actions
I‘ve been impressed every time I’ve stopped by VolunteerSpot, a tool that makes it easy for anyone to coordinate and organize volunteers. At BlogWorld Expo, I got to chat with founder Karen Bantuveris shortly after she appeared on a panel about fueling real world action through social media. “Just by making it easier to volunteer,” […]
Apple shows it’s a poor corporate citizen
Petition challenges company’s nonprofit-unfriendly policy Guest post by Beth Kanter bethkanter.org In June I wrote about how unfriendly Apple’s iPhone donation app policy was when I came across this editorial by Jake Shapiro, the CEO of PRX, (the company behind the popular This American Life iPhone and Public Radio Player apps), arguing that Apple’s […]
